South West Clinical Senate. Operating framework for urgent and planned services in hospital settings during COVID-19 (May 2020)

At the request of the South West Region Medical and Nursing Directors of the South West Clinical Senate were asked to review the recently published national guidance to support the NHS to maintain provision for patients with COVID-19, whilst increasing other urgent clinical services and important routine diagnostics and planned surgery. The Senate’s discussion was focussed around the following questions:
What are the perceived issues in implementing this guidance?
what approaches could be adopted to address these issues?